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Here’s our weekly review rounding up the best stories and ideas in public space from cities around the world! This week we bring you a list of car-filled places that should be car-free, some musing about the relationship between cities and their transit maps, and an assortment of other public space goodies. Continue reading →

At the Peterson Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, you can see a recreation of an early strip mall, still roughly human-scale and oriented toward the street with open storefronts and small businesses. The history of cars in Los Angeles is full of many such forgotten losses, reports Sarah Goodyear. (via The Atlantic Cities)

Using 40,000 Google StreetView images, researchers have determined which visual elements most define a dozen cities around the world. Paris, it turns out, is not defined by the Eiffel Tower but instead the character of its street signs, lamp posts, and balcony railings. It’s science! (via GOOD)

Using traffic counts made freely available by the City, Jake Schabas has plotted a map putting pedestrian and vehicle volumes across Toronto in perspective. As inspiration he cites one of the main principles of Gehl Architects: what gets measured gets done. (via Spacing Toronto)

Here’s our weekly review rounding up the best stories and ideas in public space from cities around the world. This week we bring you a new book on public transit around the world, a William Whyte film on the use of public spaces, and Georgia’s new bold architecture.

Here’s our weekly review rounding up the best stories and ideas in public space from cities around the world. This week we bring you parking lots as public space, micro-parks coming to Los Angeles, rooftop farming tips and tricks, and Manhattan’s next great waterfront park.

Here’s our weekly review rounding up the best stories and ideas in public space from around the world. This week we bring you Vancouver’s happenin’ food cart scene, a discussion of whether we have hit “peak car”, crowdsourcing feedback on public spaces, and two amazing time-lapse videos of Toronto and Ottawa.